Mini challenge # 340: Handmade

pegelli

The subject of this mini is "Handmade" in which I want to see an object being made or worked on "by hand". Use of hand tools is OK, but no big machinery
For the rest anything goes, the objects worked on can be small or big, any material and temporary or everlasting. Just use you imagination.

A few examples form me:

Sanding and polishing a sculpture

Chiseling

Building a sandcastle

Painting a railing

Forming clay

But obviously there are many, many more examples of handmade work projects, I'm looking forward to having a hard time judging this one

This mini will run for about 2 1/2 weeks until Monday August 22, 19:00 NWE time.

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sarasphotos

Ok Pieter, I'll jump in, but since I won the last challenge I don't think these should be considered.

1) Carpet weaving in Turkey

2) Scene painter at the Bregenz Festspiele

3) Basket weaver in Gallipoli, Italy

grandmaR

When I read this challenge I immediately thought of this photo of a glassblower who is holding a blob of hot glass by his crotch while scratching his head and thinking about what to do next
1. Glass blower in Ireland

2. A cameo maker in Italy (digitized slide from 1964)
   

3. A potter at a historical site in Texas (dressed in colonial clothes)
   

pegelli

Great work and thanks for entering Sara and grandmaR, if we get much more of this quality my judging will be hard, which is a good thing

JAG

Hopefully people have this in their archives! I have very few.

1 Hand Carved, Disney World Florida, USA

2 Guaymí Woman (was working fast to finish a basket for me before I had to get back into the canoe for an hour ride back to the cruise ship, in Costa Rica Rainforest. As it was, she ended up going on the trip with us in the canoe so she could finish, which she did, just as we pulled into the dock area. I still have the basket.)

3 Street Painter, in Cartagena Colombia (he used spray paint in cans, as well as his fingers!)

pegelli

Thanks for entering Joyce, all nice "hand"work

@all others: still a week to enter, I would like to see more to judge from

Cavalier

My entries just barely match the requirements for the mini, but this gives me a chance to show one of my favorites from a blacksmith shop - Courting Candles. From the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Coloma, California.

"In the 1600's to the 1800's, courting candles were used by the man of the home to set boundaries for his daughter. When the daughter's suitor came calling, the father lit the candle in a sitting room where the couple conversed. When the candles burnt to the metal at the top of the candle holder, it was time for the suitor to promptly leave. However, the father could change the height of the candle based on how comfortable he felt about the suitor. Also, the father could immediately snuff out the candle or add a second candle depending on what he deemed necessary. The courting candle served as a quiet, yet firm reminder to the suitor to end his date."

The beginnings - molding the spiral base.

Moving back into the shop and expert - beginning the top and bottom design.

Finishing the Courting Candle before inserting the adjusting rod.

And not for entry:
some of the rough finished Courting Candles

And a photo showing the adjusting mechanism usually placed on a wooden base. (not my photo)

grandmaR

I haven't seen the results??

moose135

@grandmaR said:
I haven't seen the results??

This just ended today, probably hasn't had time to choose yet...

This mini will run for about 2 1/2 weeks until Monday August 22, 19:00 NWE time.

pegelli

This mini has now ended (it actually ended 14 hours ago).
I'll try to get the results up today or tomorrow

grandmaR

I lost track of the end date.